A median strip planted with two rows of plane trees separates the central thoroughfare from the side-alleys.

[1] For some years now, the city has been deploying bikeways on the Paris Avenue's medians, as well as bicycle parking hoops.

Before the avenue was built, there were only two ways to get from the village of Versailles to Paris, one of them winding to the north and the other to the south around the obstacle constituted by the Montbauron hill.

To build the Paris Avenue, four years of earthworks were necessary, using shovels and pickaxes, wicker baskets and dump trucks.

A trench had to be opened up on the southern flank of the Montbauron hill, whose embossing blocked the view of the palace.

To get an idea of the scale of the work involved, one need only consider how steeply the Montbauron street slopes away from the avenue.

In 1824, on the orders of the Marquis de la Londe, mayor of the 3rd arrondissement of Seine and Oise, the city built pavilions to collect the octroi tax.

On March 4, 1984, the avenue was the site of a demonstration by the "mouvement de l'École libre" (the "free school movement" in English),[4] which stretched as far as Place d'Armes.